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Note: During all years of the Saskatchewan Breeding Bird Atlas drought conditions persisted and the Atlas range maps for all waterfowl, waterbirds, and wetland-associated species should be viewed as characteristic of distribution and abundance during dry conditions. Read the full drought statement here.
Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
The Solitary Sandpiper lives up to its name, as it is most often seen alone. Even when 2 or 3 gather at the same wetland, they separate rather than forage in loose aggregations like other shorebirds. This species has the habit of laying its eggs only in the previous nest of another bird species in a tree (Moskoff 1995). The Solitary Sandpiper breeds in the boreal forest from northern Alaska to southern Labrador, barely entering the lower 48 states in northern Minnesota. It winters from the US Gulf coast south through Central America and the Caribbean to Peru, Bolivia, and south-central Argentina.
During the breeding season this species frequents ponds in wooded bogs. On migration it is most often seen at freshwater sloughs and dugouts, and along rivers and small lakes, but is usually absent from the barren shores of saline lakes (Smith 1996, Fenty in Leighton et al. 2002).
A fairly common summer resident in the subarctic and boreal regions. There is some evidence of range contraction on the southern fringes of the Solitary Sandpiper's range, perhaps due to drainage of muskegs for agriculture, or climate change. South of its breeding range it is an uncommon to fairly common spring and fall transient (Smith 1996).
Original text by Frank H. Switzer. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Solitary Sandpiper in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Solitary Sandpiper in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=SOSA&lang=en [14 Nov 2025]
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